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Hi, Set of 3-week old bantam chicks, broody-raised outside. One baby has been not growing as quickly as the others and is a bit weaker. Its body is on the small side with quite short legs, but its wings and tail are where they should be, so it's weirdly proportioned. Its default mode is...

We only have two quail, both female and raised together from the same hatch, and they live together in a 2x4 pen ( in process of building a bigger outdoor area), fed a 27% protein gamebird crumble with mealworms as treats. One of them has become quite broody and started getting extremely...

3 weeks old! I think the first is a boy, but the other three seem to have the same amount of lesser comb development. Girls? Chick 1: Chick 2l: Chick 3: Chick 4:

Hi! This is my first hatch ever, and I'm kinda bummed. 6/6 bantam eggs made it to lockdown (Day 18) with nice big developing moving chicks at Day 17. 3 pipped on day 19, hatched on day 20. The remaining 3 eggs never pipped. I pried one's aircell open and found this: It seems fully...

I've never done this before, so thought to check here. All the eggs seem to be developing, have vessels and a little floating dark spot that moves a bit. But, the development area is only in 2/3 or so of the egg! And this is true for all the eggs. There is a large 'clear' area (separate from the...

Black spots on new rooster's comb. They seem to flake off reasonable easily. Pecking injuries, fowl pox, frostbite, ??? Thanks!

There seem to be three options for bantams: APA Standard of Perfection ABA Bantam Standard ABA Bantam Mini Standard It's hard finding sample pages from the books. Near as I can tell, the SOP has drawings of what birds should look like. The Bantam Standard books have photos of birds they...

Our bantam chickens sleep squished up in the eaves of their pen and have done so since we evicted them from the brooder. Those two are the only chickens in the coop, and I'm worried about the dropping temps (dips below 40F at night, will be in low 30s later). If they would actually go in their...

Baby d'anvers 4 week guesses! Any help would be appreciate. :) Chick #1 (unknown), Chick #2 (pullet?), and Chick #3 (cockerel amirite): Closeup of Chick #2 (pullet?): Closeup of Chick #1 (unknown): Chick #1 and Chick #3 for comparison combs:

I've been combing over old books online to find photos/drawings of chickens around the turn of the century--some breed appearances changed a little, while some have changed a lot. I found a small book on home flocks from 1909 that has chapters discussing how much space chickens should have and...

These are part of a farm's flock that I saw when purchasing feed. The speckled brown one was half-way sized between a bantam/LF and the cream one was definitely a clean-legged bantam.

Okie doke, this is what we've been working on for the past couple weekends. It is for our 3 chicks (bantams + an Ameraucana) with room for a couple more. Never built one before, and we've been kinda winging it after pouring through these forums and many trips to Home Depot. It's 4x10, and...

These little buggers want nothing to do with me unless I bring cheese, then they'll swarm my hand and run off after all the bits are gone. Petting? Cuddling? Picking up? Not a chance you crazy person! They're Old English Bantams currently creating giant messes in my living room tupperware...

We're framing out the coop and are deciding important things. The coop (4x4) is attached to a run and will be beneath a higher corrugated roof (so no worries about rain). I was thinking of making the half the coop roof hardware cloth instead of wood to let in light and fresh air, but I'm not...

It's an off-chance, but I read recently that certain color varieties of OEG have "chipmunk" colored chicks that can be sexed from hatch. These are 2.5 week old crele chicks that we purchased straight run and both have the same stripy markings, but one chick is a darker black/brown and the other...

I have a batch of week old bantams now, growing fast, and was planning on getting a standard chick in the next few days so I could put them all together and they'd still be roughly the same size. I would have preferred getting them all from the same source and at the same age, but none of the...

Upcoming chicken owner near Seattle, so 40s-70s (F) most of the year with occasional drops into low 30s and high 80s. My plan is to keep 3 chickens (mostly) permanently in a covered pen (4x8) with a raised coop (4x4, 2ft off the ground) as I enjoy having a non-poop landmine backyard, and I...